Recent content by defiantsf

To those struggling with sluggish mouse responsiveness, under the GPU control panel, set the Max Pre-Rendered Frames to either 1 or 0 (best). It does wonders for aiming with the mouse. :) You can easily maintain 60 FPS still if you have a decent GPU. Plays like a totally different game now.

Here is what I did to play Dead Space on the PC. (i) Turned OFF the buggy VSYNC in game. This greatly reduces the mouse lag. (ii) Turned ON VSYNC in the Nvidia Control Panel to force it on in game to avoid tearing. (optional) As a left-hander, I mapped Home-End-Delete-PgDn as my...

Anyone with high-end GPU HS, is the 8800xxx overclock much better than before? Considering one myself, but not sure of the OC benefit. I can do 612/1000 on 8800GTX stock cooler presently.

This newer version lacks many of the original 18 "G" keys for macros. :(

Power = I * V (Current Draw * Voltage) By reducing the multiplier/clockspeed, the CPU draws less current when idling. Even WITHOUT reducing the voltage, overall power consumption is reduced, yielding less heat and saving you $$$ in electricity.

Between the Nvidia's 680i mess-up and the Q9550/9450 delay, I guess I will be saving some money early next year. :)

I just started like 3 weeks ago. Played the beta but my ancient P4 Northwood couldn't handle it. Now, it's pretty smooth on Balanced setting on my Q6600. I could run it on higher settings, but I refuse to drop below 30fps even in the cities. The GU3.1 update made CTD, BSOD, or game freezes a...

Like others said, tell you friend to just keep the OC'ed GTX til the next high-end part is introduced from either Nvidia or AMD. If he absolutely must burn some money, here are some better alternatives: (i) buy another GTX for SLI (ii) Penryn upon introduction and OC it to 4.6GHz on...

To my surprise, the games I play are multi-threaded up to quad cores (or may be more?). So I upgraded from 3.4GHz E6600 to 3.2GHz Q6600. My Q6600 could do up to 3.6GHz air-cooled, but I wanted to run with C1E for lower power consumption when I surf. The icing is that I can now stream high-def...

Nehalem is suppose to have an integrated memory controller. It's a totally different ball game.

NT.

In the end, I settled on the following overclock: Defiantsf Q6600: 3.2GHz @1.344V (TR-U120x) #G0 ---Board: 680i 36 hrs Orthos stable hehe. I could do up to 3.5GHz with TR-U120X, but at the cost of much higher load temp (77C >< ). At 3.2GHz, I re-enabled C1E, and get clocked down...

The difference between able vs. clueless marketing and product management is a tri-core "product" would be anticipated early on and planned for, given a move to new chip architecture and the 65nm fab process. If AMD just sprung this upon the users and the OEM partners, then yields aren't...

Intel doesn't want AMD to go down either. It is monopoly insurance. I could see Intel execs saying 10-15% AMD marketshare while lagging almost one generation behind is "acceptable". 20-25%? AMD is just being greedy from an Intel perspective. :P Since AMD is still causing major havok in...

Yeah, I consider my chip only decent. Yours and others make me jealous. :P Oh and running on 680i, so I can always blame it on Nvidia! haha UPDATE - Lapping the CPU and HS helped a little (3C lower but paste not cured yet). Am running now at 3.4GHz (425x8) with 1.408V (actual). Orthos...